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These are the wonderful, loving, giving, and extraordinary women who believe in the mission; Redefine Ministries, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is dedicated to offering comprehensive healthcare assistance and recovery for women who have undergone trauma. The founder's journey, marked by health challenges leading to two surgeries in one year, prompted a realization of the unmet needs women face beyond immediate medical care. Recognizing the lack of aftercare from caregivers and family during recovery, the founder initiated a mission to mobilize and equip leaders to help women find freedom, healing and restoration from a life of pain, trauma, abuse, neglect, violence, addiction, illiteracy, injustice, and lack. We accomplish this by providing them with skills, knowledge, and resources. We focus on addressing trauma, chronic diseases, mental health issues, and basic living needs. Over time, Redefine Ministries has expanded its market scope to aid law enforcement in assisting victims of domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, natural disasters, homelessness, and substance abuse. Now, we incorporate primary medical care, mental healthcare, and preventative care into our existing crisis assistance and educational services. Redefine Clinical Life Center https://lnkd.in/gBbGE5BR Help us serve 10 thousand women this year! #healthcare #primarycare #mentalhealthcare #therapeuticjourney #survivors #endviolenceagainstwomen #healthcareforwomen #womenchangemakers #rescue #longtermcare #womenmonth #clinicalcenter #redefinelife #makingachange #rescue #stopviolence

A new bipartisan bill would connect people in crisis with check-in and outreach services to provide continuity of care. Research shows that follow-ups can dramatically reduce the likelihood of a repeat suicide attempt. Congressmen Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and David Trone (D-Md.) re-introduced the Continuity in Necessary Evaluative Crisis Treatment (CONNECT) Act to provide people who reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline with potentially life-saving follow-up services. https://lnkd.in/ecgrh-_5 #mentalhealth #behavioralhealth #addictiontreatment #policy #politics #publicpolicy

🎙️ Radical Reformers: A holistic approach to addressing social disparities 🎧 In this new episode, Andrew Laird delves into the remarkable journey of social enterprise Spectrum Community Health CIC with Dr Linda Harris, their Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer. From humble beginnings with just 100 individuals, Spectrum has now grown to over 800 dedicated professionals. Linda shares insights into managing a diverse team of primary care professionals, including independent-minded GPs, to deliver services covering a wide range of areas including prison health, sexual health and substance misuse. Discover the intricacies of 'jail craft' – the meticulous protocols essential for delivering healthcare in secure environments. Linda understandably has a tremendous interest in the wider social determinants of health and we get into a discussion about health neglect, and social issues and how a person's situation can deteriorate over time. We also talk about some of the measures that can be put in place to try and prevent this very damaging and cumulative harm being done. Listen to the episode here for valuable perspectives on adopting a holistic approach to addressing social disparities: https://bit.ly/3JTvvbm #Podcast #RadicalReformers #NHS #LocalAuthority #PublicServiceReform #LocalCouncil #PublicServices #InnovationInPublicServices #CommunityImpact

Don’t miss this Mutual Ventures #RadicalReformers episode with Dr Linda Harris. I’ve know Linda for 10 years and how she has led and grown Spectrum Community Health CIC is inspirational. On the podcast Linda talks a lot about the support Spectrum provides to vulnerable people including in prisons – but she also has some very key wider points which are applicable to all public services. Linda talks about early help, prevention, and the fact that a person can suffer increasing layers of vulnerabilities that can lead to spiralling health decline. Negative social elements in a person's environment act a multiplier on poor health and health systems need to have a much greater appreciation of this if we are going to help people before they need a medical support. This principle is very applicable across public services, whether it's children's social care, adult social care or supporting people into work. One of the big challenges is who pays for early help...If you are intervening to help somebody who's in a vulnerable situation, the chances are that the benefit of that in terms of cost avoidance will be felt across a range of public services. The failure to properly get to the bottom of this is why many good experimental or pilot programs that are built around early intervention and prevention don't continue once the original funding runs out. The public service organisations who should benefit from it can't agree who should pay for it! There's often no proper work done around mapping the benefits and cost avoidance. It's really frustrating, and we're seeing this quite a lot across the country. This is why the talk of a potential return of #TotalPlace and pooled local budgets is so exciting…

The S.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (SCCADVASA) is hosting a webinar on Friday, September 20, 2024, from 10:30 am – 12 noon. The title of the training is Transforming Healthcare for IPV Survivors: Collaborative Care Tools Across Sectors. The speaker for this event is Doctor Anita Ravi with the PurpLE Health out of New York. Their website is https://lnkd.in/evVnjqXW. This session will cover practical skills to address healthcare access and management for people who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Participants will acquire tools and techniques to weave social determinants of health and trauma-informed care principles when working with survivors, including people who experience homelessness, food insecurity, incarceration, and childhood trauma. Skills include fusing best practices and advocacy opportunities in coordinating care across sectors. Learning Objectives: · Recognize the impact of physical, mental, and financial health on IPV survivors. · Integrate trauma-informed care principles when addressing IPV survivors' health needs. · Identify verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to enhance patient-provider trust. · Identify opportunities to advocate for IPV survivors' health on individual and systems level. The link for registrations is as follows: https://loom.ly/5zIYU6w

No one wants to think about violence - but most of us assume that the right medical and evidence collection services are available if we need them. That we can walk into a hospital and request a rape kit or ask a nurse to assess bruises on our elderly father or pre-schooler. But the SANE* (Sexual Assault Nurse Exam) shortage means those services just aren't available for many survivors - especially in rural areas and Tribal nations. The solution? Launching a SANE program in your own facility. For Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action, we're sharing our guide to creating SANE programs on Indigenous lands. Our SANE trailblazer Joy Martin, MSN, APRN, NP-C, SANE-A, SANE-P explains how to get a program up and running and sustain it successfully for the long term. She also includes best practices any healthcare provider can use to improve the patient experience for survivors of violence. *SANE nurses also care for victims of strangulation, intimate partner violence, elder abuse, child abuse, and human trafficking. They also assist law enforcement with suspect exams and blood draws. https://lnkd.in/gwBzRVB5 #sexualassaultawarenessmonth #traumainformedcare #sane #saamdayofaction

Learn how your city or county can take steps to center and sustain equity in criminal justice-behavioral health initiatives. The CSG Justice Center and The Safety and Justice Challenge recently outlined how localities can center equity throughout all stages of a behavioral health initiative’s life cycle. Read more: https://bit.ly/3VLEGl6

The S.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (SCCADVASA) is hosting a webinar on Friday, September 20, 2024, from 10:30 am – 12 noon. The title of the training is Transforming Healthcare for IPV Survivors: Collaborative Care Tools Across Sectors. The speaker for this event is Doctor Anita Ravi with the PurpLE Health out of New York. Their website is https://lnkd.in/evVnjqXW. This session will cover practical skills to address healthcare access and management for people who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Participants will acquire tools and techniques to weave social determinants of health and trauma-informed care principles when working with survivors, including people who experience homelessness, food insecurity, incarceration, and childhood trauma. Skills include fusing best practices and advocacy opportunities in coordinating care across sectors. Learning Objectives: · Recognize the impact of physical, mental, and financial health on IPV survivors. · Integrate trauma-informed care principles when addressing IPV survivors' health needs. · Identify verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to enhance patient-provider trust. · Identify opportunities to advocate for IPV survivors' health on individual and systems level. The link for registrations is as follows: https://loom.ly/5zIYU6w

The S.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (SCCADVASA) is hosting a webinar on Friday, September 20, 2024, from 10:30 am – 12 noon. The title of the training is Transforming Healthcare for IPV Survivors: Collaborative Care Tools Across Sectors. The speaker for this event is Doctor Anita Ravi with the PurpLE Health out of New York. Their website is https://lnkd.in/evVnjqXW. This session will cover practical skills to address healthcare access and management for people who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Participants will acquire tools and techniques to weave social determinants of health and trauma-informed care principles when working with survivors, including people who experience homelessness, food insecurity, incarceration, and childhood trauma. Skills include fusing best practices and advocacy opportunities in coordinating care across sectors. Learning Objectives: · Recognize the impact of physical, mental, and financial health on IPV survivors. · Integrate trauma-informed care principles when addressing IPV survivors' health needs. · Identify verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to enhance patient-provider trust. · Identify opportunities to advocate for IPV survivors' health on individual and systems level. The link for registrations is as follows: https://loom.ly/5zIYU6w

Councils have duties, under the Care Act 2014, for safeguarding people who may not be able to protect themselves from the risk of harm due to their care and support needs. Successive investigations into harm experienced by people in health and care services have shown that restrictive practices cause significant risk. Commissioners of social care services and those monitoring compliance of services provided under a council contract must be familiar with the requirements on providers who consider the use of restrictive practices, to ensure that they’re working to reduce the practice. Our new briefing ‘Reducing Restrictive Practice’ aims to help commissioners of social care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people recognise the restrictive practice and understand the requirements for social care providers. It also explains the Care Quality Commission (CQC) requirements. You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/eAwSD-qT